Sliding-door hanger



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SLIDING 'DOOR HANGER.

No. 463,700. .Pat'en tedNov. 24, 1891.

NITED STATES PATENT- OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN D. FEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SLIDING-=DOOR HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 463,700, dated November 24, 1891.

Application filed December 1, 1890- Serial No. 373,133. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN D. FEY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sliding-Door Hangers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accoinpanyin g drawings.

This my invention relates to devices for hanging parlor sliding doors and to further improvements on the invention described in Letters Patent of the United States N 0. 431,570, which were granted to me on July 8, 1890.

This my invention has for its object to provide a device for leveling or adjusting the rail and its supporting-beam to accommodate it to any uneven settling of the building for the doors suspended to wheels riding on such rail to move easy; and with these objects in view my invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and specifically claimed.

In, the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents an elevation of the wall-skeleton around the door-opening and with the doorhanger rail secured in position, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same.

Corresponding letters of reference in the several figures of the drawings designate like parts.

A A A denote the studs forming the principal partition at each side of the door-opening B, and one wall for the pockets into which the doors slide when being opened, and C are intermediate studs above the door-opening. Against each stud A, that provide the cornerposts for the door-opening, is secured by woodscrews a stirrup or strap D,and through both these stirrups or straps is placed a beam E to extend the entire length the doors are to move. This beam E is thus supported only at two points, whereby no bending or warping strain from uneven settling of the building can be brought to bear upon such beam while the same is vertically movable in its supporting stirrups or straps D to be raised at either end and adjusted by inserting or driving a wedge between the stirrup and the bottom edge of such beam. This beam E being secured upon its supporting-shoulder of each stirrup or strap D by a wood-screw dfor adjusting such beam, this wood-screw is first screws with its upper edge extending above the rabbet of the strip. Upon this rail the wheels H, pivoted in yoke-bar hangers I, will ride, and to these yoke-bar hangers the sliding doors are suspended in the manner de? scribed in my former patent, or in any other suitable manner.

For adjusting the door-hanger rail at any time all that is necessary is to remove the central stop for limiting the movement of the doors and then to slide the door into the middle of the door-opening, so as to clear the wall-pocket entirely, when the carpenter can reach with his hand through the pocket-opening in the door-jambs to release the screw (1, and then raise or lower the beam E in the manner described.

What I claim is- In a door-hanger, the combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, with the dooropening corner-posts, of two stirrups rigidly secured to said posts and having their outer walls practically parallel thereto, a beam located within said stirrups with play for vertical adjustment therein, and a door-hanger rail located on the outside of said stirrups and rigidly secured to said beam, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 

